Signed Photograph BERNHARDT, Sarah (1844 - 1923) FRANCE,SHAKESPEARE,THEATER,WOMEN

Photograph signed by French actress Sarah Bernhardt. Inscribed in french in 1910. Decorative frame. Please inquire for more information. Sarah Bernhardt (born Henriette-Rosine Bernard) was a French stage actress who starred in some of the most popular French plays of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, including La Dame aux Camelias by Alexandre Dumas fils, Ruy Blas by Victor Hugo, Fedora and La Tosca by Victorien Sardou, and L'Aiglon by Edmond Rostand. She played female and male roles, including Shakespeare's Hamlet. Rostand called her "the queen of the pose and the princess of the gesture", and Hugo praised her "golden voice". She made several theatrical tours worldwide and was one of the early prominent actresses to make sound recordings and act in motion pictures.